Restricted zone at the moment. Still so many questions to be answered. And theres going to be a lot of fingerpointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. Lets take a kind of a look back now at all we know. At the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3 00 here on the east coast of the United States. We are following breaking news this hour. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene was captured on camera, the moment a Passenger Jet falls from the sky, exploding on impact. The tragedy without a doubt. But was it an accident . Right now it appears very likely this plane may have been intentionally shot down over Eastern Ukraine. We dont know for sure. Theres a lot we dont know. Heres what we know right now. This was Malaysian Airlines flight a boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam To Kuala Lumpur in malaysian. On board, 295 people, 280 of them passengers. 15 of them crew membe
white house knew this and people were prepared for this but it does not make it feel any better. it s often two bad decisions you have to make and pick the best you can. this won t be the last the president has to make in terms of prisoner swaps. we have dozens and dozens of americans around the world being held hostage by foreign governments. and so we know viktor bout is a russian arms dealer. his nickname is the merchant of death sentenced for 25 years for conspiring to kill americans, supporting terrorism, former soviet military officer. he was in custody for about 15 years since he was first apprehended overseas and then so why is he important? why has viktor bout been so important to vladimir putin? there s a little bit of a mystery there as a number of people have mentioned. you know, i think that,ing loo, the reports are that he was probably a gru officer. there was some kind of intel background there.
accidentally learn things, brian. sometimes it s the best kind of learning when knowledge falls into your lap and we get a little bit smarter about what s up with the trump campaign. so today we re faced with a question. why would the campaign chairman for president trump be providing what must have been internal poll data why do i say must have been? the russians don t need to get public poll data from manafort. they can read that in the newspaper. so here s this kind of proprietary poll data going to a russian that everyone believes is at least connected to the gru. but in looking at his bio, i think he might have been a gru officer at one time. and what would the expectation be? he s not going to go home and stick the polling data on his refrigerator. he s going to do something with it. so imagine let s play that out. you now are armed with where trump s doing well, where he s doing poorly, what s the expectation, what s going on
accidentally learn things, brian. sometimes it s the best kind of learning when knowledge falls into your lap and we get a little bit smarter about what s up with the trump campaign. so today we re faced with a question, why would the campaign chairman for president trump be providing what must have been internal poll data? why do i say must have been? the russians don t need to get public poll data from manafort, they can read that in the newspapers. so here s this kind of proprietary poll data going to a russian that everyone believes is at least connected to the gru, but in looking at his bio, i think he might have been a gru officer at one time. and what would the expectation be? he s not going to go home and stick the polling data on his refrigerator. he s going to do something with it. so imagine, let s play that out. you now are armed with where trump s doing well, where he s doing poorly, what s the expectation, what s going on while this is all happening?
chairman for president trump be providing what must have been internal poll data? why do i say must have been? the russians don t need to get public poll data from manafort, they can read that in the newspapers. so here s this kind of proprietary poll data going to a russian that everyone believes is at least connected to the gru, but in looking at his bio, i think he might have been a gru officer at one time. and what would the expectation be? he s not going to go home and stick the polling data on his refrigerator. he s going to do something with it. so imagine, let s play that out. you now are armed with where trump s doing well, where he s doing poorly, what s the expectation, what s going on while this is all happening? the social media campaign, the hacking into the dnc. who did that, brian? the russian gru. this is all coming together now. joyce vance, is this, indeed, the most vivid evidence yet of let s call it cooperation with russians? i think we re getting very close to